Three of five children from TV show traced after 50 years

Three of the five children who featured in an episode of The School Around the Corner broadcast almost 50 years ago have been traced.

It has fuelled hopes that a very special reunion could be on the cards.

Stephen Butt was tracked down in Cork on Tuesday after an appeal on RTÉ following the discovery of “lost” footage of the show.

A pupil of Blackpool NS in 1962, he was among five kids selected to talk to the show’s presenter, Paddy Crosbie, for the episode which was broadcast in December 1962.

And after an article about Stephen in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday, which called for information about the other four stars of the show, RTÉ archivists said they now have contact details for two more of the children — Maire Ni Dhugáin, who is understood to be living overseas, and Noel O’Driscoll.